While continuing to sell MG vehicles in the United Kingdom, the state-owned Chinese automaker has opened two plants in Rayong and Chonburi, Thailand, to build right-hand-drive MG models for the Thai and other Southeast Asian markets.

In 2017, SAIC also started selling imported MG models in Chile and Saudi Arabia.

Last year, MG¡¯s global sales surged 88 percent year on year to approach 140,000 on demand for the MG ZS and the upgraded MG6, according to SAIC.